Mike Deiure

Hello,My name is Mike Deiure and I wanted to introduce myself and give you some of my background as a guitar teacher and musician. I’ve been teaching guitar and piano professionally for over 15 years now and I have worked with literally hundreds of students. With this amount of experience I have come to find the necessary things for students to focus on learning so that they are interested in playing the guitar but also see fast results so that they will want to continue to learn and get better.I started to study guitar at the age of thirteen after I had studied piano for eight years. It was players such as Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, and John Petrucci that first got me into really wanting to learn how to rock on guitar and be the best I could be at it. I studied classical guitar for a few years at The State University of New York at Fredonia and then transferred into the Music Industry program at SUNY Oneonta. I began teaching full time right out of college in 02’ and have been doing it ever since. Over the years teaching has not only made me a better guitar player but has also given me the opportunity to work with many different students who all have different ways of learning. After years of trial and error I have been able to successfully find a style of teaching that has been proven to work with ALL of my students. As students progress and get better, they will always want to go in their own direction, however if a solid understanding of the basics has not been built, then they will find it difficult to play and write the music that they are most passionate about.